We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.

George Santayana
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  1. Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

  2. The worship of power is an old religion.

  3. To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world.

  4. A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one’s life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  5. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval

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